In “The Buried City,” a meditation on both the ruins of Pompeii and his life as a pioneering archaeologist, Mr. Zuchtriegel ...

The stunning, complete plaster cast of one of the villa's horses is the first of its kind from Pompeii. When the volcano erupted, many of the town’s residents and animals collapsed and died in ...

Picture: Supplied The cast bodies of a 40-year-old master and his young slave. Picture: Handout / POMPEII ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK / AFP Both buildings were being renovated at the time of the eruption.

Nearby, in the Garden of the Fugitives, we found the bodies of an entire extended family cast in plaster. When earlier archaeologists found human voids left in the volcanic ash, they poured plaster ...

In 2023, Germany’s Staatliche Ethnographische Sammlungen Sachsen returned eight plaster casts of Māori people to Aotearoa New Zealand, one of which was based on a “life mask” made by Finsch.

The museum’s current exhibition, Pompeii: Inside a Lost City, displays resin copies of 19th and 20th century casts of those who perished in the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE. Through ...

ADVICE TO VISITORS This display contains copies of casts of some of the victims of the eruption in 79 CE. They represent four people and a dog in their final moments. Please be respectful.

These casts have since become symbols of Pompeii – heart-breaking freeze frames of families cowering in their homes, beggars praying to the heavens and merchants fleeing laden with valuables. These ...

To learn more about the room, the team use plaster casts of the cavities in the ash to reproduce the shapes of the furniture that filled the room: a chest, a bed and a small table.

Pompeii: Inside a Lost City at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra depicts life in the flourishing Roman city of Pompeii before it was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. It ...